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...selecting a special prosecutor (now called an independent counsel) to probe the affair, a three-judge panel in Washington provided a broad mandate to investigate five areas, including the "provision or coordination of support for persons or entities engaged as military insurgents in armed conflict with the government of Nicaragua since 1984." The man they picked is Lawrence ("Ed") Walsh, 74, a former federal judge and Viet Nam peace negotiator. Born in Canada, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1922 and spent much of his private career with the Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell...
Margaret Randall has spent much of her life traveling. Her journeys as a writer, oral historian and left-wing activist have taken her to Mexico, North Viet Nam, Nicaragua and Cuba. Today she has settled in at the University of New Mexico as a teacher of American and women's studies. But if the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way, she may have a bit more traveling...
...that law is under courtroom attack. One front is in the U.S. Supreme Court. It decided last week that it would review the decision of a Washington appellate panel that last March rejected the Government's assertion of a virtually unfettered right to bar several foreign visitors, including Nicaragua's Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and former Italian General Nino Pasti. In the meantime, Randall remains in the U.S. while preparing to make her case before an immigration appeals board. But in a federal lawsuit she is pressing a separate challenge to McCarran-Walter itself. Her suit has been joined...
...speeches were dramatically illustrated with slides and maps of Central America. The case for Nicaragua's contra rebels was presented starkly, with powerful emotion. "All we offer (them) is a chance to die for a cause they believe in," Lieut. Colonel Oliver North told a rapt audience in Nashville. "If we fail to provide the support that is so necessary for these people, this country, which last year had 23 of its citizens killed by terrorism around the world, will very soon find its citizens being gunned down on its own streets...
...appreciation for Channell's pro-contra efforts. When Congress was debating a resumption of military aid to the contras, earlier this year, Channell's Liberty endowment boasted that it would spend more than $2.5 million "in support of our President's accurately reasoned policies regarding the threat that Communist Nicaragua now poses." Last week Channell declared that all of his organizations' funds were "solicited from patriotic American citizens...